# Really bad, geeky, uncool songs you absolutely love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853 "2003-11-18T04:43:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/1 "2003-11-18T04:43:40Z")
I admit it: I can’t help but crank the volume up when I hear Belinda Carlisle singing “Heaven is a Place on Earth” ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/2 "2003-11-18T04:55:24Z")
That MC Hawking thing about Entropy. [http://www.mchawking.com/multimedia.php?page\_function=mp3z](http://www.mchawking.com/multimedia.php?page_function=mp3z) (Scroll down to ‘Entropy’) It’s a rap song made to sound like cosmologist Stephen Hawking’s talking computer aid. ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/3 "2003-11-18T05:25:27Z")
Marky Mark and Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations Cranked up with the windows rolled up. ---
**Author:** ![R-Con](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/858c86/32.png) [@R-Con](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R-Con)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/4 "2003-11-18T05:32:30Z")
Duran Duran’s “Girls on Film”…on film. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/5 "2003-11-18T05:35:28Z")
Pretty much every pop song recorded between 1967 and 1983. Here’s a list of some of my uncool favorites: Sky High by Jigsaw Convoy by CW McCall Motorcycle Mama by Sailcat The Pina Colada Song by Rupert Holmes Dime a Dance by Vicki Lawrence We Are Family by Sister Sledge Down By The Lazy River by the Osmond Brothers Havin’ My Baby by Pa… um… Having just realized that I could very easily suck all the cool out of the SDMB singlehandledly, I think I’ll just shut the hell up now. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/6 "2003-11-18T06:13:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*I admit it: > > I can’t help but crank the volume up when I hear Belinda Carlisle singing “Heaven is a Place on Earth” \*\* “Heaven is a Place on Earth” is a geeky song? Since when? Maybe if you’re a hard core punk or heavey metal fan and you don’t like pop rock then I supose you could concider it geeky. In that case, I must be a major geek because I love alot of her songs (and Go-Go songs as well). And I guess by this standard, then _Roxette’s_ - **The Look** and **Listen to You Heart** must be geeky too. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Dizzy\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/7 "2003-11-18T06:13:32Z")
“That’s Mathematics” by Tom Lehrer ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/8 "2003-11-18T06:15:20Z")
And, I guess I’m a geek too because I can’t use the **Bold** html code properly either 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/9 "2003-11-18T06:22:24Z")
Since **Beavis and Butthead** made **Winger** an uncool band, then my favorite song from them **Headed for a Heartbreak** would be concidered geeky and uncool I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Babbington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mr.Babbington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Babbington)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/10 "2003-11-18T06:30:35Z")
Does **Just Can’t Get Enough** by Depeche Mode count? **Sex** by Berlin **The More You Ignore Me (The Closer I Get)** by everyone’s favorite celibate, Morrisey. And I love Ace of Base. I saw the sign…and it opened up my eyes, I saw the sign. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/11 "2003-11-18T06:45:01Z")
Um… Well… See, I have a certain weakness for… [sub]The Safety Dance[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/12 "2003-11-18T06:47:05Z")
“Thunder Island” by Jay Ferguson “Lonely Boy” by Andrew Gold “Devil Woman” by Cliff Richard “Year of the Cat” and “Time Passages” by Al Stewart So basically middle of the road “lite FM” pop from the late 70s. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/13 "2003-11-18T08:01:53Z")
Depeche Mode? Morrissey? and really bad in the same sentence. Blasphemous. Geeky? I could see that, same with uncool(if you love Britney and Xtina, I guess). But for me, I guess you could throw anything by Weezer into the geeky section. And a really bad song that I absolutely cannot turn off is Punk Rock 101 by Bowling for Soup. Pop-punk at its most derivative. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/14 "2003-11-18T08:15:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pepperlandgirl \* > \*\*Um… > > Well… > > See, I have a certain weakness for… > > [sub]The Safety Dance[/sub] \*\* Power, sister! Men Without Hats got me into checking out music that wasn’t played on the radio much, which leads to all kinds of good stuff. I wouldn’t be half the geek I am today if I hadn’t heard Safety Dance when I did. Without it I’d never have heard of Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, James Brown, Joy Division, George Clinton, Bauhaus, DOA or the Velvet Underground. Plus it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it, so I’d give it an 85. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/15 "2003-11-18T08:32:29Z")
Peaches by that presidents band. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/16 "2003-11-18T08:37:12Z")
Define geeky. What is uncool? 😕 :eek: I’ll second most of the songs listed so far. ---
**Author:** ![Sonyadora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Sonyadora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonyadora)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/17 "2003-11-18T08:45:19Z")
Wall of Voodoo “Mexican Radio” Anything by CW McCall “Tangerine Speedo” Caramba “Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot” I giggle every time I listen to this song, I can’t help it. The theme to the Disney Electric Light Parade I challenge all of you to find dopier songs than these. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/18 "2003-11-18T09:13:04Z")
Anything by Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Harry Warren, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Adler and Ross, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kander and Ebb, etc. Of course, their songs are still very cool, but lots of people don’t realize that. ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/19 "2003-11-18T10:44:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by widdershins \* > \*\*“Year of the Cat” by Al Stewart. \*\* :eek: Since when is that [masterpiece](http://www.lu-art.com/Music/Yearofthecat) uncool??? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853/20 "2003-11-18T10:54:53Z")
I can’t define geeky, but I know it when I hear it. Especially when I lip sync to **Jesse’s Girl**. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-geeky-uncool-songs-you-absolutely-love/213853.md?page=2)